Layer 2 and layer 3 on the same server?

Ve2pf

I have a /24 of public IP that I want to bring in parts to some clients that are router's I need them to pass all layer 3 traffic ( I know it is not what we do usually). This will bring the internet on the lan side of the router and this is what I want to do. expose the machine directly. the firewall and security will be done at the machine level.

But I also want to have other cleints to act like a normal connection on layer 3 they are assign one IP by the server and they share thge external ip with a few other client that are connected to the same server i the same type of connection.

Is that even doable?

For those that ask, Nope I cant split the /24 and have it at diferent location in /28 or /29 batch. This project is for ham radio

Now I hope that question will be answered a bit better then the last one.

And if it is doable, please point me to a section of the documentation that really talks about the specific.
I am learning, but have no prior experience with openvpn but using the road warrior openvpn script that fill in all the blanks and create a vanilla vpn with a single user . that is nice but you dont learn anything doing that.

Pierre
VE2PF

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yes you can have two openvpn layer 2 and one layer3 working on the same server . you need to create two working openvpn server run on the same on bridge connection Linux client have hard time to get ip from dhcp from server , on windows client it get ip address automatic .

two working openvpn should run on difference port and name on the tun or tap should increase by 1 not be the same

on my raspberry I run two openvpn one tun0 and one tun1 and I run wiregurad so three virtual network can work the same time and it work very well.